These footprints appeared to date back to the Early Cretaceous when the continent was attached to Antarctica and hinted that the large and carnivorous theropod dinosaurs lived in the polar region.

The evidence garnered by researchers proved that massive carnivorous dinosaurs like theropods thrived in polar environments. Theropod translated to 'wild beast foot' in Greek who walked on two ...

Birds that fill the world’s skies today are living dinosaurs, reminders of a distant and strange past. Decades of major new discoveries and studies have convinced researchers that there’s a direct ...

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Despite the increasingly clear picture of the evolution of birds from theropod dinosaurs that has emerged, a few scientists are still unconvinced. No alternative hypothesis has been offered to ...

New research by Field Museum scientists finds widespread herbivory in bird-like theropod dinosaurs. Four of the 90-theropod species involved in the study shown with dietary interpretations.

But for Jingmai O’Connor, the dinosaurs she studies – look a lot more like birds. “If you looked at an artist’s reconstruction of something like Velociraptor or Microraptor or a small feathered ...

The ancient species is called Tameryraptor markgrafi and it is a member of a group of carnivorous theropod dinosaurs called Carcharodontosauridae. The dinosaur’s fossilized remains were found in ...

An analysis of nearly 120 dinosaur species and more than 1,500 skeletal features revealed that the theropod lineages that are thought to have been direct ancestors of birds evolved skeletal ...

"If you looked at an artist's reconstruction of something like Velociraptor or Microraptor or a small feathered theropod dinosaur very closely related to birds, you would see that it pretty much ...